Synopsis:

In today's affluent Britain almost one in three children live in poverty. Denied a childhood, they are forced to make adult decisions and bear adult responsibilities long before they should. This film talks to children in just these situations around Britain, and they talk about their experiences with honesty and insight.

A family of twelve live together in grandmother's three-bedroomed council house. 8-year old twins Kayley and Becky don't go to school, they stay up watching cartoons and get up at mid-day. In another household, five children of school age are at home watching television on a normal school day. David is 11 and has been expelled from school nineteen times. Anney is also 11: he too is excluded from school and his parents are addicted to heroin. The film paints a bleak portrait of life on the edge in modern Britain.